How to format your references using the Journal of Adolescent Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Adolescent Health. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Kaelin WG Jr. Molecular biology. Use and abuse of RNAi to study mammalian gene function. Science 2012;337:421–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Teasley S, Wolinsky S. Communication. Scientific collaborations at a distance. Science 2001;292:2254–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Downs JA, Nussenzweig MC, Nussenzweig A. Chromatin dynamics and the preservation of genetic information. Nature 2007;447:951–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Vogeley L, Sineshchekov OA, Trivedi VD, et al. Anabaena sensory rhodopsin: a photochromic color sensor at 2.0 A. Science 2004;306:1390–3.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Anisman H. Stress and Your Health. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Baets W, editor. Knowledge Management and Management Learning: Extending the Horizons of Knowledge-Based Management. vol. 9. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Epstein SL, Petrovic S. Learning a Mixture of Search Heuristics. In: Hamadi Y, Monfroy E, Saubion F, editors. Autonomous Search, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 97–127.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Adolescent Health.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. New App Can Literally Improve Your Eyesight. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-app-can-literally-improve-your-eyesight/. AccessedOctober 30, 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. IRS Website: Long-Term Strategy Needed to Improve Interactive Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Stevenson J. Differences in physical activity behavior between insulin using diabetics versus non-insulin using diabetics. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Vecsey G. In the Motor City, Success on the Field and Hope Off It. New York Times 2011:B15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Adolescent Health
Abbreviation	J. Adolesc. Health
ISSN (print)	1054-139X
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Psychiatry and Mental health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health